Methane pipes and monitors dot the Tippecanoe Sanitary Landfill, which has been closed on North Ninth Street for nearly 20 years, as seen on March 29, 2010, in Lafayette.

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Chris Morisse Vizza
cvizza@jconline.com

The former Tippecanoe Sanitary Landfill, an Environmental Protection Agency Superfund cleanup site, could become a public park.

"We have had no problems whatsoever with the landfill," said John Knochel, chairman of the board that is responsible for the site. "We seemed to turn the corner in the direction we were eventually trying to get, making it into some sort of a park or trails."

Recreation was the last thing federal and state regulators had in mind when the landfill was added to the national list of abandoned hazardous waste sites in August 1990. ...